4.1 Installing Connector/J from a Binary Distribution

For the easiest method of installation, use the binary
distribution of the Connector/J package. Extract the JAR archive
from the tar/gzip or zip archive to a suitable location, then
optionally make the information about the JAR archive available
by changing your CLASSPATH (see
Section 4.2, “Installing the Driver and Configuring the CLASSPATH”).

Use the appropriate graphical or command-line utility to extract
the distribution (for example, WinZip for the .zip archive, and
tar for the .tar.gz archive). Because there
are potentially long file names in the distribution, we use the
GNU tar archive format. Use GNU tar (or an application that
understands the GNU tar archive format) to unpack the .tar.gz
variant of the distribution.

You can also use Maven dependencies as an alternative
installation method. In that case, the Connector/J binaries are
automatically downloaded from The
Maven
Central Repository by default and managed locally by
your Maven tool